I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.

Monday, March 30, 2009

There's this trend in luxury resorts called "glamping" (glamorous + camping -- yes, it's a pretty awful word) that keeps piquing my interest. I think it's the aesthetic of a FortyNiner's canvas tent + the safari campaign furniture + electricity. Or maybe it's just the clear air you get when you sleep with the windows open, taken to the nth degree. At any rate, here's Tent City at the Resort at Paws Up.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ah, Habitually Chic, one of both my and Tangelia's favorites. My heart went pitter-patter at the sight of this feature of designers White & Webb. I'm not sure I've ever seen such classic, masculine rooms.

It just looks like a clock -- above this bar is actually a mirror within a clock frame.

You know it's well researched when she finds "steampunk home" things that surprise even me -- like the work of artist David Trautrimas or decorator Will Wick (those I will do posts on -- they are too good not to!).

With his lightning-quick mind, a ball of string and a handful of seeds (which he kept about his person at all times), Professor Thistlequick took to the skies, in pursuit of Happiness, in a race through the clouds that was to last for much longer than he should have hoped…

Monday, March 16, 2009

What's not to like? Hand crank to position the head, louvers to further direct the light, filament bulb, telescopic base... oh yeah, and it's a "reproduction of a 19th-century British marine light used to transmit Morse code."